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- Time Patrol
series24 books1955
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Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories follow Manson Everard, recruited in 1957 into a secret organization that polices time travel, hunting down unauthorized travelers and anyone who would alter history. The series ranges from the waterfall that once refilled the dry Mediterranean basin to Gothic-era Ukraine and Phoenician Tyre, treating each era as a crime scene the Patrol must protect from tampering.
- Infinity Ring
series8 books2012
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Infinity Ring is a series of young adult science fiction adventure novels written by multiple authors, including James Dashner, Lisa McMann, Matt de la Peña, Matthew J. Kirby, and Jennifer A. Nielsen, in a similar fashion to The 39 Clues. It is focused on the adventures of Dak Smyth, Sera Froste, and Riq Jones as they try to fix changes in time through time travel.
- Ayesha
series8 books1886
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The Ayesha books follow H. Rider Haggard's immortal sorceress-queen Ayesha, introduced in his 1887 novel She as the ruler of a hidden civilization who has waited millennia for her lost love to be reborn. Haggard continued her story in later novels, including the 1905 sequel Ayesha: The Return of She, which reunites her with characters from the first book, and further installments tracing her earlier history. Later reissues and retellings continue to build on the same character.
- Wolves Chronicles
series12 books1962
completed
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The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge. It opens with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, in which two girls outwit a scheming governess sent to ruin them, and expands over twelve books into a sprawling saga of orphans, conspiracies, and journeys through a Britain quite unlike the real one. Aiken kept adding to the same timeline across more than four decades, including later prequels set before the first book.
- Timeline
Michael Crichtonstandalone novel1999
similar byexpeditionsadventuroustime travel
Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining science, technical details, and action in his books, this time addressing quantum and multiverse theory.
- Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth
Lloyd Alexanderstandalone novel1963
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Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history.
- Time's Tapestry
series4 books2006
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Stephen Baxter's Time's Tapestry sequence imagines a version of history repeatedly altered by messages sent back through time by a sect trying to change Rome's fate, with each novel following the ripple effects across a different era of British and world history. Emperor opens the sequence in Roman-era Britain, and the alternate timeline compounds across the following three novels before a concluding volume gathers the whole arc. It was published across the mid-to-late 2000s as one continuous four-book story.
- Time Traders
series7 books1958
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The Time Traders opens Andre Norton's Cold War-flavored science fiction series, following an American agent recruited to travel into the past and counter a Soviet operation built around ancient technology unearthed from a vanished civilization. Norton, later joined by collaborators Sherwood Smith and P. M. Griffin, expanded the sequence to seven novels published between 1958 and 2002, and revised the opening book herself in 2000. Like several of Norton's other series, it treats leftover technology from a long-gone ancient culture as its central plot engine.
- Tarzan
series50 books1912
part of Tarzan Universe
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Tarzan is a series of 24 adventure novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) and published between 1912 and 1966, followed by several novels either co-written by Burroughs, or officially authorized by his estate. There are also two works written by Burroughs especially for children that are not related to the main series.
- The Chronicles of St. Mary's
series46 books2013
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Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Mary's follows the disaster-prone historians of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, who insist they don't 'time travel' but merely 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time' — usually while narrowly avoiding death and causing chaos. Beginning with Just One Damned Thing After Another, the comic time-travel series has grown to nineteen novels ranging across historical periods from the Cretaceous to the twentieth century.
- Marcus
series4 books1954
completed
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Rosemary Sutcliff's linked Roman Britain novels follow several generations of one family across centuries of the Roman occupation and its aftermath, opening with The Eagle of the Ninth, in which the young centurion Marcus Aquila sets out to recover his lost father's legion standard. Later books, including The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers, follow his descendants through Britain's slow slide out of the Empire.
- Temeraire
series48 books2006
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Temeraire is a series of nine alternate history fantasy novels written by American author Naomi Novik. The novels follow the adventures of Captain William Laurence and his dragon, the eponymous Temeraire, and reimagine events of the Napoleonic Wars with "an air force of dragons, manned by crews of aviators". His Majesty's Dragon, the first entry in the series, won the Compton Crook Award in 2007 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel the same year. Temeraire: In the Service of the King, an omnibus volume collecting the first three novels, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2007. Temeraire was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017.
- Ancient Egyptian
series9 books1993
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Wilbur Smith's Ancient Egypt novels open with River God (1993), narrated by the loyal eunuch slave Taita as he guides the royal family's flight from the Hyksos invasion and their eventual return to power. The series, later continued by Smith with co-author Mark Chadbourn, follows Taita and Egypt's rulers across further installments including The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, and Desert God, spanning three decades of publication.
- Nicholas Graydon
series3 books1923
completed
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A. Merritt's Face in the Abyss duology began as a 1923 novelette in Argosy All-Story Weekly, later joined by its serialized 1930 sequel, The Snake Mother; both were combined into the single 1931 novel The Face in the Abyss. The pairing forms a classic lost-world adventure from the pulp era.
- Monella
series3 books1896
completed
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Frank Aubrey's Monella novels are Victorian-era lost-world adventures built around a recurring, sorceress-like figure named Monella, encountered by different explorers in hidden regions of South America and a submerged Atlantis. Beginning with The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, the loosely linked books send new casts of characters into fresh perils rather than continuing one plot across volumes. Later editions have repackaged the novels together in combined omnibus volumes.
- Dinosaur Summer
Greg Bearstandalone novel1998
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From the flaps of the Warner first edition: "It's the year 1947, and nobody's interested in dinosaurs anymore. Less than fifty years after Professor Challenger's famed journey to the Lost World, America's last dinosaur circus is closing down... but the adventure of a lifetime is about to begin. In a dramatic change of pace, multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction master Greg Bear, ... presents a lavishly illustrated thriller that is certain to become a new classic adventure beyond time... Peter Belzoni is dreading summer in Manhattan. Then his father, photojournalist Anthony Belzoni, offers the youth a job, a byline in National Geographic... and a trip to South America. For the Lothar Gluck Circus, once the world's foremost dinosaur attraction, had gone bankrupt. Left behind is a menagerie of avisaurs, centrosaurs, and ankylosaurs, as well as one large predatory raptor named Dagger. And now two filmmakers and the circus trainer plan to return the giants to the wild - with Peter and his dad chronicling the odyssey for Geographic. The task seems impossible. Many have died trying to bring beasts our of the Lost World, the plateau of El Grande in Venezuela, but nobody has ever attempted to transport nearly a dozen full-grown, multiton prehistoric creatures across continents, down rivers, through jungles, and up mountains that has been isolated for 70,000,000 years... The trek will strain the technologies of trains, cargo ships, barges, trucks... en route lurk robbers and hostile, trigger-happy soldiers... and each mile toward freedom excites Dagger toward an unstoppable primal killing frenzy. When the unthinkable threatens to strand Peter and the rest of the crew in an uncharted realm, four modern Americans will face all the unknown dangers, mysteries, and terrors of El Grande..."
- Cairo Jim and/or Jocelyn Osgood
series18 books1991
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Cairo Jim is an archaeologist-poet who lives in Cairo's fictional Valley of the Hairdressers, adventuring around the world's ancient sites with his English-speaking, Shakespeare-quoting macaw Doris and a widely read camel named Brenda, usually opposed by his treasure-hunting rival Captain Neptune Flannelbottom Bone. Jocelyn Osgood, a pilot and flight attendant, joins him on many of the later expeditions. Geoffrey McSkimming's Australian series runs to about twenty volumes of pun-heavy, globe-trotting adventure for younger readers.
